Word: devilishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rowing the traditional Waban distance in much poorer time than that of any Float Night in history, the Weeks Memorial Bridge Boat Club, comprised principally of those Devilish Dunster Funsters, took a somewhat fishy looking victory over the polite Wellesley Senior, Junior, and Freshman boats yesterday...
...Dolores' passionate influence is like a spark among the dry tinder of the convent. The nuns work hard, rise early and sleep in their own coffins, but some of them are overyoung to be the brides of heaven. Among these, Dolores' influence seems sinister if not definitely devilish. The prioress thinks she can make her into a good nun. But then young Pedro comes prowling around the walls, sees Dolores, and the fat is in the fire...
President Roosevelt has been cogitating that question. As a result the U. S. Delegation is fitted out with an elaborate sop to be offered at the right moment to Japan, a positively devilish sop in the opinion of Japanese sea dogs who hoped and prayed last week that it will not water down their human torpedo into a damp squib...
...importance, if the folowing proposals are to be successfully carried out: there must be a more perfect understanding between the administrative officers of the College and the editors of the CRIMSON than I seem to detect from the course of the two series of articles published to date. The devilish difficulty of undergraduate journalism, as viewed from the windows of the college offices, is that to maintain intimate relations is a labor of Sisyphus. Annually the officers roll the stone up to the top of the incline, and the next autumn they must start to roll it uphill all over...
...from parochial. His earlier works (Three Friends, The Good Conscience} were preparatory to his six-volume Juviking epic that follows that family's affairs from times when Progenitor Per Anders fights hand to hand with the Devil, to his descendants' struggles with more modern devilish banks and herring-oil factories. Highly prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than in his difficult Landsmaal dialect) he is reported to have missed a Nobel Prize by one vote. The circulation of his Juviking books in the U. S. has left a large...